Upcycling Music

Babette unexpectedly falls out of her (picture) frame and thus from Basel around 1750 into the present day - and while she's here, she might as well tell us a bit of the inside story: Preferably, of ...

Detective Allegro has discovered some strange things in the music museum. Suddenly there is music coming from the rooms, strange objects are lying on the floor and there is even an instrument case in ...

What are the different types of wood and how does sound production work with a reed? There are various instruments and materials to discover on the tour of the permanent exhibition.

Various chamber music formations will be discovered and explored with musical examples based on the Museum of Music's collection presentation. This will include both ensembles with a homogeneous sound ...

What was the first string instrument? How have string instruments developed over the centuries? And why does a Stradivarius sound the best? String instruments the size of a trouser pocket are ...

It is not only "music" as a concept that is female. In the history of music, there have always been highly talented and influential women who have unfortunately been forgotten due to the predominantly ...

The Georgsturm trombone choir plays every weekend. This Sunday, a trombone will play for the last time before it is handed over to the collection of the Historical Museum. From the labyrinth square in ...

The "Schola Cantorum" is as much a part of Basel today as the Läckerli or the Rhine. The collection in the Music Museum offers objects that are visual and acoustic evidence of how the city's musical ...

In addition to the pictorial Dance of Death, such as the Basel Dance of Death, there are also numerous musical interpretations of the memento mori. The tour looks at the tradition of the musical dance ...

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With our ears, hands and hearts, we immerse ourselves in times long past, when not everyone in Switzerland could read and write. The chime of the bells indicated the time of day or called people to ...

What was the first string instrument? How have string instruments developed over the centuries? And why does a Stradivarius sound the best? String instruments the size of a trouser pocket are ...